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    "id": 1498729,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1498729/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr Julius Migos Ogamba",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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    "content": "The Ministry has taken the following measures to ensure that the Grade Nine classrooms are completed before the start of the 2025 academic year: 1. There are strict timelines for the construction to ensure completion by December 2024. 2. The procurement process was undertaken at the school level so that they could manage, own and monitor the process and progress of the construction. 3. The monitoring of the construction sites has been ongoing to ensure timely completion of the projects. Field officers provide weekly updates to the Ministry on the construction progress. Any challenges that they face are immediately escalated. The Ministry has taken the following measures to ensure a seamless transition of learners from Grade Eight to Grade Nine: 1. There is provision of adequate infrastructure and furniture by building the necessary classrooms in time and directing the acquisition of furniture from the capitation that is provided to schools. 2. Providing resources for the confirmation of the 46,000 intern teachers to permanent and pensionable terms and employment of an additional 20,000. 3. Distributing books across the country to ensure that learners will have their textbooks at the ratio of one book per learner per subject. 4. Re-tooling JSS teachers to adequately prepare them to handle Grade Nine learners. 5. Ensuring timely disbursement of capitation to support JSS operations. Hon. Speaker, as earlier indicated, public JSS have been served with 56,367 teachers, comprising 9,000 teachers on permanent and pensionable terms, 39,550 intern teachers and 8,378 qualified primary school teachers. The Government has converted the terms of the intern teachers to permanent and pensionable, effective in January 2025. It is recruiting another 20,000 teachers. The intern teachers will report to schools in January. Further recruitment will"
}